Cooper Hewitt
Magdalene Portable Font
Minton and Company, British, 1793 - 1968 · ca. 1840
Font (a) with cover (b) of gothic arches formed from radiating cyma curves which result in a peaked dome shape. Segments of the dome are adorned with foliate patterns. The font is further decorated with tresfoils around the body of the basin and quatrefoils at the lip of both the basin and the lid. The font rises on a stepped plinth and an octagonal base.
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